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confin'd

vb. (context archaic English) (en-past of: confine)

Usage examples of "confin'd".

For what can be more unhappy, than for a Man, devested of Senatorian Honours, to be still confin'd to Fatigue and Trouble?

As yet, his tender Age has confin'd him to your Eye, and domestick Tutors, where there is little or no room to go astray.

But when I entertain'd a Scruple, whether I should give you a View of all my present Composition, or defer some to a farther Opportunity, I judg'd it more friendly and ingenuous to yield up all to your Hands, especially since you assure me they shall be confin'd to your selves, till I think it proper to publish them.

Why, such a one as we were accustom'd to bear uneasily in Senate, even for a small Point of Time, where we were confin'd to suffer it.

Our Letters ought also to bear something that is not mean and groveling, and confin'd to private Affairs.

When they are too dangerous to roam free, the town Madmen are kept as a responsibility of the Company, confin'd in padded rooms in the Slave Lodge.

But he confin'd himself to five points only, as meant by the apostle, viz.